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FellowesQi2014on Everyone's Trying to Track What You Do on the Web: Here's How to Stop Them

Yes, it is necessary. Think of Ghostery as filling the role of a black-list and ABP filling the role of a grey-list (and sometimes white-list).

FellowesQi2014on Everyone's Trying to Track What You Do on the Web: Here's How to Stop Them

While I am not nodata, I have a single acronym answer for you:

STASI

FellowesQi2014on Everyone's Trying to Track What You Do on the Web: Here's How to Stop Them

FWIW, my Firefox privacy add-on stack is:

* Adblock Plus

* BetterPrivacy

* Ghostery

* NoScript

* PrivacyChoice TrackerBlock

* QuickJava

* User Agent Switcher

Yes, there is some overlap in functionality. And getting the configurations correct can be a minor pain (none of them are ready to go after install).

I have also found the Chromium version of Ghostery cannot be configured to block DoubleClick tracking. :-( So much for using Chrome-based browsers as my main browser.